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KAREN Network
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Jun 23 2009, 11:51 PM EDT by
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Thread started: Mar 18 2009, 5:39 AM EDT
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Hello every body: I have noticed a silence in IRGO activitiy in particular the discussion threads. However, I would like to start a discussion around what is known as KAREN network. What are the potentials and if there are opprtunities that we are missing out.
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RE: KAREN Network
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Jun 23 2009, 11:51 PM EDT
Hi there
The reason for radio silence on your thread is that we're in the process of migrating over to the new site (http://irgo.otago.ac.nz) -- we've just put up the first of the discussion forums there, you might find that space more useful.
cheers
erika
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New books - Whuffie Factor, WEB DRAGONS and Web Search:
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Jul 2 2008, 7:09 PM EDT by
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Three new books that might be of interest to this group - Thanks for pointers Dallas.
The Whuffie Factor: The 5 Keys for Maxing Social Capital and Winning with Online Communities (Hardcover)
by Tara Hunt
http://www.horsepigcow.com/book-the-whuffie-factor/
WEB DRAGONS Inside the Myths of Search Engine Technology
By Ian Witten, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Recipient of the ACM SIGKDD Service Award.
Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy
Teresa Numerico, University of Salerno, Italy
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/709116/description#description
Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Information Science and Knowledge Management)
by Amanda Spink and Michael Zimmer
http://internetmarketingandmessages.blogspot.com/2008/02/new-book-web-search-multidisciplinary.html
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Social Networks
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DISCUSS: General
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Apr 29 2008, 10:42 PM EDT by
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Thread started: Nov 7 2007, 3:50 PM EST
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It occurs to me that it might be useful to list who is on Facebook, LinkedIn, even Magnolia/delicious, etc. Networks within networks.
I'm on FB, LinkedIn and Magnolia, myself...
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RE: Social Network tools
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Apr 29 2008, 10:42 PM EDT
"I now have an account on the twine (http://www.twine.com) beta release (thanks to http://invites.mashable.com). I have 10 invitations I can send if anyone else would like an acount" of course, the big question is: is it any good?
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bloggers and the open society
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DISCUSS: politics and activism
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Feb 11 2008, 1:54 PM EST by
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Thread started: Feb 10 2008, 3:21 PM EST
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This thread might have a slightly "China-oriented" flavor, but hopefully the issues I would like to raise go beyond the Chinese Great Wall of Internet.
The main, basic one remains for me if, even with the acknowledgment of all its limitations and complications, the Internet has indeed allowed societies to become more open.
Are (some, many, most?) bloggers poking holes in dominant ideology?
Here is some food for thought in light of the upcoming Olympics in China:
Dissident’s Arrest Hints at Olympic Crackdown
BEIJING — When state security agents burst into his apartment last month, Hu Jia was chatting on Skype, the Internet-based telephone system. Mr. Hu’s computer was his most potent tool. He disseminated information about human rights cases, peasant protests and other politically touchy topics even though he often lived under de facto house arrest
Mr. Hu, 34, and his wife, Zeng Jinyan, are human rights advocates who spent much of 2006 restricted to their apartment in a complex with the unlikely name of Bo Bo Freedom City. She blogged about life under detention, while he videotaped a documentary titled “Prisoner in Freedom City.” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mHrfE_1yf4) Their surreal existence seemed to reflect an official uncertainty about how, and whether, to shut them up. [...]
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/world/asia/30dissident.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
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RE: bloggers and the open society
By: paolavoci,
Feb 11 2008, 1:54 PM EST
Source: International Heral Tribune (2/4/08):
Chinese begin to protest censorship of Internet
WUHAN, China: As an 18-year-old student with an interest in the Internet,
Zhu Nan had been itching to say something about the country's pervasive
online censorship system, widely known here as the Great Firewall.
When China's censors began blocking access to the popular photo-sharing site
Flickr, Zhu felt the moment had come. Writing on his blog last year, the
student, who is now a freshman at a university in this city, questioned the
rationale for Internet restrictions, and in subsequent posts, began passing
along tips on how to evade them.
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For the vast majority of Internet users, censorship still does not appear to
be much of a factor. The most popular Web applications here are games and
messaging services, and the most-visited Internet sites focus on everyday
subjects like entertainment news and sports. Many, in fact, seem only
vaguely aware that the Chinese Internet universe is carefully pruned, and
even among those who know, a majority hardly seems to care.
But growing numbers of others are becoming increasingly resentful of
restrictions on a wide range of Web sites, including Flickr, YouTube,
Wikipedia, MySpace (sometimes), Blogspot and many other sites that the
public sees as sources of harmless diversion or information.
The mounting resentment has inspired a wave of increasingly determined
social resistance of a kind that is uncommon in China.
This resistance is taking many forms, from lawsuits by Internet users
against government-owned service providers, claiming that the blocking of
sites is illegal, to a loose but growing network of software writers who
develop code aimed at overcoming the restrictions.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/04/asia/wall.php
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Zotero.
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Teaching and Research Positions
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Dec 16 2007, 5:41 PM EST by
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Thread started: Dec 16 2007, 3:35 PM EST
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Erika - Have you tried the excellent bibliographic Firefox addin called Zotero? It automatically sucks the bibliographic entry from the Web and adds it to a library all in your browser.
It's the shiznet!
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Dec 16 2007, 5:41 PM EST
*points to the button on her browser*
Yep, I have it, though I found it can be a bit uneven in what details it sucks in
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Automating conference content
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ANNOUNCE: Conferences and Calls for Papers
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Dec 16 2007, 3:58 PM EST by
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Thread started: Dec 16 2007, 3:58 PM EST
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Most of the conference content above provides links to the conference Websites. It might be more efficient to set up a group on a social bookmarking site like Delcious (http://del.icio.us/) or Ma.gnolia (http://ma.gnolia.com/) and automatically import the conference updates to this page through RSS or some other option these sites provide.
What it means for users of IRGO, is that a user account would need to be set up at the selected service (and if you use OpenID to authenticate to IRGO, you can use this at Ma.gnolia also) and simply bookmark conference discoveries. I guess the mandatory information would be submission dates and a short description - which can be copy and pasted from the Website in question.
Any good?
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Last Day for CVs for Network Application
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Network Application
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Nov 20 2007, 8:03 PM EST by
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Thread started: Nov 20 2007, 8:03 PM EST
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Please get your CVs to me ASAP for the application for networks/clusters. We still need more to reach the minimum number!
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I vote for #1 (slightly revised)
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Manifesto
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Nov 8 2007, 12:53 AM EST by
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Thread started: Oct 23 2007, 10:43 PM EDT
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OPTION ONE (slightly revised)
The Internet Research Group of Otago (IRGO) is an multidisciplinary group that facilitates cross-disciplinary inquiry into the technological, cultural, social, economic, and political issues relating to the Internet. As a network of active researchers, IRGO is also interested in promoting and developing research, scholarship and understanding in and across these areas.
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RE: Innovative
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Nov 8 2007, 12:53 AM EST
I can live with or without it, but I guess, that others will read it in the same way as I did (e.g. the guys from NZTE or FRST at the Digital Summit) and misinterpret it.
Don't want to be a bean counter, so leave it the way it is.
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InternetNZ
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Nov 7 2007, 9:12 PM EST by
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Thread started: Nov 7 2007, 6:41 PM EST
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Should we form a link with InternetNZ (The Internet Society of New Zealand)?
If we ever get cluster founding we should invite Peter Dengate-Thrush down to meet and chat with us. He is also on the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
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RE: InternetNZ
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Nov 7 2007, 9:12 PM EST
The retiring Chair is Chair is Dr Vint Cerf , the father of the Internet!
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Current Internet Papers at Otago?
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DISCUSS: teaching internet papers
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Nov 7 2007, 7:24 PM EST by
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Thread started: Jun 25 2007, 4:41 PM EDT
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Who here is currently teaching or planning to teach in the immediate future a paper on internet issues? I have a paper in proposal for a 200-level special topic on the social life of the internet, which intends to be a fairly broad-brush paper for communications students new to internet studies.
Anyone else?
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RE: Current Internet Papers at Otago?
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Nov 7 2007, 7:24 PM EST
Taught from the Information Science Department but is listed as a Health Science paper.
HEIX707 Health Ethics and the Internet - this has been running since 2004
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OpenSocial & Google
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DISCUSS: Web 2.0 (and beyond?)
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Nov 7 2007, 2:28 PM EST by
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Thread started: Nov 5 2007, 3:02 AM EST
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This is a must read:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/technology/04digi.html
--Martin
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RE: OpenSocial & Google
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Nov 7 2007, 2:28 PM EST
Though it will be interesting to see how they manage identity transfer -- perhaps multifacet identity management may be the way to go. You experienced this when you tried to get your students onto...was it a Facebook group, and became the creepy math teacher (your words very badly paraphrased back atchya!)
Do I really want my Facebook (with my real name attached) linked to my Livejournal (where I refuse to put up my real name or any major identifying pieces of information). Will that informal, self-maintained id management go out the window, or will the OS software allow me to control who can see what, who knows what, who can follow which links where?
Questions, glorious questions....
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Which option is best?
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Oct 23 2007, 7:37 PM EDT by
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Thread started: Oct 23 2007, 7:37 PM EDT
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Vote for options 1,2,3 or 4, or submit a donkey vote here!
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FINAL REMINDER: IRGO Promotions Kit
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Promotion Kit
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Oct 7 2007, 5:52 PM EDT by
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Thread started: Oct 7 2007, 5:52 PM EDT
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This is the final reminder that we need your information for the promotion kit by October 23 at the VERY LATEST for inclusion into the kit for the Digital Summit. This is an excellent opportunity not only for Otago and the IRGO as a group, but also for individual members to showcase their research to the wider community.
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Brown Bag Lunch Seminar - Topics
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ANNOUNCE: irgo events
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Sep 23 2007, 6:50 PM EDT by
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Thread started: Sep 23 2007, 6:50 PM EDT
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If you have a topic you'd like to discuss, an issue you wish to raise, or a paper you wish to test out on an audience, please reply with it here (and any time-restraints, if any) and we'll put it on the queue for the BB lunch series.
If you don't suggest any, I'll pick them - so you have been warned! :)
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"Active Comment" list
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DISCUSS: The Wiki
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Sep 20 2007, 4:12 PM EDT by
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Thread started: Sep 20 2007, 4:12 PM EDT
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I didn't know this til I went to Wetpaint Central, but the active comment will only show the latest active comment in different _threads_. So if a thread is active, only the very latest comment will be represented on the front-page. So I urge you, if you aren't using email notification, to either use RSS or some other feed into the site to keep track of highly active threads (such as the Manifesto/I think IRGO is..." thread, or click on the most active threads yourself.
I wonder if there is a widget to fix it/make it easier to track...?
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I think IRGO...
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Sep 20 2007, 4:08 PM EDT by
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Thread started: Aug 7 2007, 9:14 PM EDT
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...complete the sentence
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RE: How about this?
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Sep 20 2007, 4:08 PM EDT
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" --"i/Internet" you are a born leader - a diplomat :-) -- keep going, my ego could use the feeding *g* --Actually I liked your first try better than this one. -- This one is far more speculative and open (and, perhaps, meaningless) If other people want to have a go, we can line them all up and vote - how very democratic (or autocratic if I'm the only one involved!)
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Submissions
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ANNOUNCE: Conferences and Calls for Papers
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Sep 5 2007, 3:57 PM EDT by
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Thread started: Sep 4 2007, 6:50 PM EDT
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So, is anyone planning to submit (or have already submitted) anything to any of these conferences?
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Sep 5 2007, 3:57 PM EDT
I plan to (sneaks away to write furiously). I'm also on the Grad School: Survivor panel.
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On-line or static content
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DISCUSS: General
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Aug 23 2007, 11:38 PM EDT by
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Thread started: Aug 12 2007, 6:31 PM EDT
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How about having an on-line IRGO conference before the end of this year? We could start by accepting extended abstracts from members (and others) on their work/ideas etc. We could even have them reviewed by the IRGO? It doesn’t need to be a large turn out it is just a start.
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imagined communities and trust relations
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DISCUSS: Community, social capital, diaspora and networks
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Aug 23 2007, 11:30 PM EDT by
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Thread started: Jun 25 2007, 4:46 PM EDT
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Virtual community was the buzzword of sociologically-orientated net studies for a while there, but is anyone else still playing with these questions of what makes and maintains communities online? I'm currently working on a project that intends to apply (a slightly modified version of) Anderson's 'Imagined Communities' to help explore how images and visual cues help support the formation of trust bonds in networked virtual communities.
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RE: imagined communities and trust relations
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Aug 23 2007, 11:30 PM EDT
identity, as I tell my students, is a ritualized behaviour: it must be developed over time. Just ask any RPGer, they can tell you how their character IDs evolve the longer they are played. And without identity - without knowing 'who' you are talking to - I argue that you cannot have community.
Though it'd be interesting to look into anonymous or overlarge communities (would the rule of 150 still apply?)
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IRGO CyberConference
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Aug 22 2007, 11:00 PM EDT by
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Thread started: Aug 22 2007, 11:00 PM EDT
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I posted a long note about a great way to launch/promote this on the general discussion thread.
All positive and negative feedback very welcome.
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